Medium
Security advisory
In ImageMagick 7.0.7-16 Q16, a vulnerability was found in the function ReadOnePNGImage in coders/png.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (ReadOneMNGImage large loop) via a crafted mng image file.
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-17914
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In ImageMagick 7.0.7-16 Q16, a vulnerability was found in the function ReadOnePNGImage in coders/png.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (ReadOneMNGImage large loop) via a crafted mng image file.
osv:CVE-2017-17914
Complete source record
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